Asymptotic bayes-optimality under sparsity of some multiple testing procedures

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1551-1579

  Bogdan, MałGorzata ^a   Chakrabarti, Arijit ^b,d   Frommlet, Florian ^c   Ghosh, Jayanta K ^a,d  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic optimality; Bayes oracle; FDR; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857648827     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOS869     Document Type: Article

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